We’re back! For the month of April, the guest for the Technicast is Meredith Morovati. Meredith is the executive director of Dryad, a digital repository non-profit organization that promotes the open availability of research data. Listen to colleague Chloe Tuck and I as we discuss Dryad’s mission statement and Meredith’s views on the growing impact of digital repositories on the scientific research community. For more information on Dryad, visit datadryad.org.
A Crash Course on the Public Domain Care of Mickey Mouse
After 95 years of perhaps the strictest copyright protection this side of bulletproof glass, Mickey Mouse is now entering the public domain – sort of. The original “Steamboat Willy” version of Walt Disney’s crown jewel of intellectual property officially enters the...